EvilEgg:If you are paying for top shelf in your mixed drink, you deserve what you get.

Exactly. The only way you can pass off Evan Williams black-label as Woodford Reserve is when it is mixed with Coke.

DRTFA, but knowing Jersey and TGIF clientele, I'm thinking that it was probably Fleischmann's Vodka and sprite instead of Grey Goose and sprite, as if anyone could tell the difference. In fact, I've heard Kirkland-brand Vodka and Grey Goose are distilled in the same place.

factoryconnection:EvilEgg: If you are paying for top shelf in your mixed drink, you deserve what you get.

Exactly. The only way you can pass off Evan Williams black-label as Woodford Reserve is when it is mixed with Coke.

DRTFA, but knowing Jersey and TGIF clientele, I'm thinking that it was probably Fleischmann's Vodka and sprite instead of Grey Goose and sprite, as if anyone could tell the difference. In fact, I've heard Kirkland-brand Vodka and Grey Goose are distilled in the same place.

I just threw up in my mouth a little. Fleischmann's is disgusting. There's not a mix in the world that can fix the taste of Seagram's or Fleischmann's.

Interesting, all of the TGIFridays listed are owned by the same franchisee, The Braid Restaurant Group. They only own 3 others in NJ. I wonder if this was corporate policy? And if so, I wonder if a RICO charge could be leveled?

factoryconnection:EvilEgg: If you are paying for top shelf in your mixed drink, you deserve what you get.

Exactly. The only way you can pass off Evan Williams black-label as Woodford Reserve is when it is mixed with Coke.

DRTFA, but knowing Jersey and TGIF clientele, I'm thinking that it was probably Fleischmann's Vodka and sprite instead of Grey Goose and sprite, as if anyone could tell the difference. In fact, I've heard Kirkland-brand Vodka and Grey Goose are distilled in the same place.

The very idea of a premium vodka is a joke. Vodka is the absence of flavour. The best vodka is pure ethanol.

unyon:factoryconnection: EvilEgg: If you are paying for top shelf in your mixed drink, you deserve what you get.

Exactly. The only way you can pass off Evan Williams black-label as Woodford Reserve is when it is mixed with Coke.

DRTFA, but knowing Jersey and TGIF clientele, I'm thinking that it was probably Fleischmann's Vodka and sprite instead of Grey Goose and sprite, as if anyone could tell the difference. In fact, I've heard Kirkland-brand Vodka and Grey Goose are distilled in the same place.

The very idea of a premium vodka is a joke. Vodka is the absence of flavour. The best vodka is pure ethanol.

unyon:factoryconnection: EvilEgg: If you are paying for top shelf in your mixed drink, you deserve what you get.

Exactly. The only way you can pass off Evan Williams black-label as Woodford Reserve is when it is mixed with Coke.

DRTFA, but knowing Jersey and TGIF clientele, I'm thinking that it was probably Fleischmann's Vodka and sprite instead of Grey Goose and sprite, as if anyone could tell the difference. In fact, I've heard Kirkland-brand Vodka and Grey Goose are distilled in the same place.

The very idea of a premium vodka is a joke. Vodka is the absence of flavour. The best vodka is pure ethanol.

Stoli is as high up the shelf worth going. Otherwise you are paying for pretty bottles and expensive marketing campaigns.

I also love the people who try to order "top shelf" Long Islands. Wtf.....

unyon:factoryconnection: EvilEgg: If you are paying for top shelf in your mixed drink, you deserve what you get.

Exactly. The only way you can pass off Evan Williams black-label as Woodford Reserve is when it is mixed with Coke.

DRTFA, but knowing Jersey and TGIF clientele, I'm thinking that it was probably Fleischmann's Vodka and sprite instead of Grey Goose and sprite, as if anyone could tell the difference. In fact, I've heard Kirkland-brand Vodka and Grey Goose are distilled in the same place.

The very idea of a premium vodka is a joke. Vodka is the absence of flavour. The best vodka is pure ethanol.

I'd stuff my bottle of Tito's up your ass but I'm pouring some in a few hours.

The one and only time I've been to a TGI Fridays was after a looooooooooooong day of traveling and we got to the hotel in Panama City next to the canal. We were hungry and thirsty and tired and the restaurant in the hotel was a Fridays. Bienvenido a Friday's!

I plan on keeping that my one and only experience at a TGIF. Fark that place.

I propose a new government job. I'll go from bar to bar with nips of top shelf liquors. I will have each bar pour me a shot of each kind of liquor. I will match shot for shot with my nips. If I notice any discrepancies I will make an appointment to revisit that bar at a later date and do the test again.

basemetal:EvilEgg: If you are paying for top shelf in your mixed drink, you deserve what you get.

Meh, if you want to drink yours straight, go for it. Myself, if I want some tonic and a lime with my Bombay Sapphire, that's my own damned business.

/and bartenders, I can tell the difference and will send it back

You probably can (I can for sure) - incidentally try Citadelle if you like Bombay Sapphire...

*BUT* most people can't.

I had a poor friend in college who was dating a high dollar girl who constantly made him buy top shelf drinks for her (gin - Bombay Sapphire actually). Since I was a big gin guy and girls normally aren't, I was curious if she even knew the difference between that and wells. -Honestly I'm impressed by anyone who appreciates gin, especially the girls.

So I did a taste test on her for two drinks... she failed... I told her she was right... and let my friend know his drink bills were about to get a *lot* cheaper with this one.

Wait persons at TGITMA (Thank God It's the Middle Ages) have to wear chain mail that looks like flair. On the plus side, many a wait person has been saved from sneek attacks with dirks and daggers, and the occasional sword. The helmets help.

I'm just making that up. But if the Potzrebie Effect is real, the fact that I can conceive it means that it actually exists in another universe somewhere.

I figure if there is anything as improbable as a "Thank God It's Monday" coffee mug, there must be a universe where TGITMA's is a real thing. Don't we have Renaissance Fayres and Medieval dinner and a mélee places? Why wouldn't people go for a Medieval Theme Restaurant, heavy on the beef, with edible trenchers of bread?

Trencher men (fatties) would love it.

All you can eat Sir Loin, Baron of Beef, Count de Monnaie, Duke of Earl, and Bugs Bunny broiled rabbit platters.

No potatoes though. That would be going too far, namely to the New World and back.

Yes, it's a good world. And as it's creator, I get to to freeload at all the restaurants I invent, all the hotels I invent, and duty free shops. Creator's Discount. OR ELSE.

Wouldnt that pretty much be automatic forfeiture of their liquor license? The fact that it was many TGI Friday's would also suggest it was a bit more than just a weekday manager trying to squeeze a few bucks more into the profit margin. Assuming it came from any higher up you can probably add racketeering charges as well.

/We all know that thirteen 40-something-year old female managers are about to get thrown under a bus but this sounds a lot "sleazier" than that.

ecmoRandomNumbers:There's not a mix in the world that can fix the taste of Seagram's or Fleischmann's.

Haha you haven't had terrible vodak til you've had Heaven Hills. That shiat tastes exactly how rubbing alcohol smells. For $12 a 1.75 liter bottle Barton's is alright. TAAKA is decent but the name makes me think it's a sound the heavy in tf2 would make.

The hell with getting the brand right. It seems lately that too many places can't even get the LIQUOR right. Since when does a Gimlet or a Mojito involve vodka without specifying so (or even if you specify it)? Apparently since vodka got cheap, I guess... For that matter, even the venerable Martini deserves to be labeled as a Vodka Martini when that substitution is made. At least freakin' ask before you dump Grey Goose on me instead of the gin, rum, or whatever cocktail I asked for and think I won't frickin' notice. Well is fine, but at least give me what I ordered! Geez.

Gabrielmot:basemetal: EvilEgg: If you are paying for top shelf in your mixed drink, you deserve what you get.

Meh, if you want to drink yours straight, go for it. Myself, if I want some tonic and a lime with my Bombay Sapphire, that's my own damned business.

/and bartenders, I can tell the difference and will send it back

You probably can (I can for sure) - incidentally try Citadelle if you like Bombay Sapphire...

*BUT* most people can't.

If it was vodka, or some other spirit, I wouldn't know the difference, but I have had to tell a bartender to open the new bottle because that's not Bombay. (a couple of times my buddy and I both looked at each other and told the waitress, that's not Sapphire).

Ahum, Bombay Sapphire is for posers that don't know about important things and also they smell bad and are dumb and have saggy balls with funny smells that are unimportant.

Hendrick's or Broker's are the only gins for people that are not posers and know about important things and smell like top-shelf hooker perfume and are very smart with tight, high, large balls that smell like top shelf hooker pussy and are important.

Those SNL fake ads were pretty good sometimes. More than once it was nearly over before I realized that it was a fake.

Remember the Gay Beer ad with Chris Farley and the gorgeous pool boys? the Diamonds are Forever parody with lesbians? Those were two of many that fooled me at least part way through. Ah, sometimes SNL was as good as it used to be*.

And sometimes it was ahead of its time.

*I allude to the tale that somebody once complained to Mr. Mark Lemon, co-founder and a long time Editor of PUNCH magazine that it wasn't what it used to be and he replied modestly that it never was.

Mark Lemon's father was a hop merchant in London, which brings us back to beer.